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I wonder whether it would be possible for him to speak at all if it is opened up to all and becomes a protest. I can see the logic of keeping it invitation only if you actually want to hear what he says. But perhaps that’s unfair
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Thanks for this. One question, is there reason to think Trimalchio was enslaved at rather than bring born into slavery?
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The apposite comparison (your own) is not with Euripides or even Aeschylus but rather with Aristotle Onassis
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It’s the opinion of one person who happened to be one of the greatest philosophers of all time
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If your political project leads you to speak so condescendingly of what voters consider to be ordinary outlooks and frames and reference then it is bound to fail, as indeed it already has in the US
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Surely it’s deliberate misprision, not a failure of understanding?
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The leader we should have had would have been able to win an election against a convicted felon ffs. Staggering failure and ineptitude
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He’s right though, so much of life is just wasted
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Gosh sounds exhausting, so sorry to hear it!
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How long is each one, may I ask?
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It’s clearly already coded that way - in 2009 22% of veterinary school entrants were male
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I’m strongly opposed to the practice, but I don’t think the analogy with adult rights really works. There are lots of unobjectionable ways in which children have fewer rights than adults. And lots of unobjectionable things parents can do to (young) children that they couldn’t legally do to an adult
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E) he invented the entire thing, its a fictional speech
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I enjoyed the review, but struggled to understand the concerns about ‘formalism’ in linguistics. Also the sentence below. What do you take it to mean? Thanks for the great book!
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Can’t see the link?
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Do you think philologists need to understand nothing beyond Latin? That literary study is just learning to read? Philologists, exactly like ancient historians, need Latin as a baseline plus additional expertise in a variety of specialisms. It’s no different
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This does feel like a particularly anglophone issue, to be honest. Multilingualism is just a normal requirement in much of the rest of the world
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But these lines are a close rendering and adaptation of Odyssey 5.306: τρὶς μάκαρες Δαναοὶ καὶ τετράκις… Aeneas’ first words are taken straight from the mouth of Odysseus
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I don’t think it’s hard in the way that, say, quantum physics is hard. It just takes an enormous amount of time and dedication, same as any language. And surely it’s sine qua non for serious work involving texts of any kind, i.e. pretty much any ancient history